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golden

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of golden

1 having qualities which inspire hope

  • this may be your golden moment to impress a baseball scout, so donʼt blow it
Synonyms of golden

auspicious, bright, encouraging, fair, heartening, hopeful, likely, optimistic, promising, propitious, rose-colored, roseate, rosy, upbeat
Words Related to golden

cheering, comforting, reassuring, soothing

assured, confident, decisive, doubtless, positive, sure, unhesitating

beamish, bullish, eupeptic

favorable, good
Near Antonyms of golden

cheerless, comfortless

doubtful, dubious, uncertain

bearish, grim, negative, unfavorable

funereal, glum, gray (also grey), miserable, wretched
Antonyms of golden

bleak, dark, depressing, desperate, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, downbeat, dreary, gloomy, hopeless, inauspicious, pessimistic, unencouraging, unlikely, unpromising, unpropitious

2 marked by conspicuously full and rich sounds or tones

  • sang in a golden alto that filled the concert hall
Synonyms of golden

orotund, plangent, resonant, resounding, reverberant, reverberating, reverberative, ringing, rotund, round, sonorous, vibrant
Words Related to golden

deep, full, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellow, plummy, rich

loud, powerful, stentorian, thundering, thunderous
Near Antonyms of golden

cavernous, hollow

faint, low, murmurous, muted, smothered, soft, weak

thin, tinny

3 marked by vigorous growth and well-being especially economically

  • the golden age of industrialization
Synonyms of golden

booming, boomy, flourishing, halcyon, healthy, lush, palmy, prospering, prosperous, roaring, successful, thriving
Words Related to golden

affluent, moneyed (also monied), opulent, rich, substantial, wealthy, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do

comfortable
Near Antonyms of golden

declining, dying, failing, floundering, languishing, struggling

bankrupt, bankrupted, insolvent
Antonyms of golden

depressed, unprosperous, unsuccessful

4 of a pale yellow or yellowish brown color

  • a golden Labrador
Synonyms of golden

blond (or blonde), fair, flaxen, sandy, straw, tawny
Words Related to golden

ocherous (or ochreous)

ash-blond (or ash-blonde), blondish, strawberry blonde (or strawberry blond), towheaded

gold, light, white
Near Antonyms of golden

black-a-vised, brown, brunet (or brunette), dark, olive, swart, swarthy

black, ebony, raven

5 pointing toward a happy outcome

  • that new job is a golden opportunity
Synonyms of golden

auspicious, bright, encouraging, favorable, heartening, hopeful, promising, propitious
Words Related to golden

fortunate, fortuitous, happy, lucky, providential

advantageous, beneficial, profitable, prosperous, salutary
Near Antonyms of golden

unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky

calamitous, catastrophic, disastrous, fatal, ruinous

baleful, dark, dire, direful, doomy, foreboding, gloomy, ill, ill-boding, menacing, minatory, ominous, portentous, sinister, threatening
Antonyms of golden

dim, discouraging, disheartening, futureless, hopeless, inauspicious, unfavorable, unpromising, unpropitious

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